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Global · Sep 20, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 1.7 percent in the year to August, in figures the Statistics Bureau published on 18…
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Global · Sep 18, 2026 · 8 min read
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by a quarter point, from 1.0 percent, to around 1.25 percent on 18 September,…
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China · Sep 18, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan raised and the yen fell anyway. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.38 percent higher at 65,018.95 on Friday after…
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China · Sep 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia split on Thursday over the first session after the Federal Reserve’s quarter point rise: Hong Kong’s Base Rate moved to 4.25…
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Japan · Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan ran a trade deficit of 1,105.6 billion yen in August, up from 294.1 billion yen a year earlier, the Ministry of…
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China · Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our Asia board except one rose on Wednesday, with Korea's Kospi the day's best at 1.37 percent higher and…
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Japan · Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan imported 30.9 percent less petroleum by volume from the Middle East in August than a year earlier and paid 3.7 percent…
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China · Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our Asia board fell on Tuesday, with Singapore's Straits Times the worst at 1.39 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225…
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China · Sep 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Asia's chip heavy markets fell on Monday after the leaders of rival artificial intelligence laboratories united behind a call to slow the…
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Global · Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan held 644.27 trillion yen of assets on 10 September, the last account it published before its policy meeting…
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China · Sep 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia Pacific equities closed broadly lower on Friday, with the technology heavy Japanese and South Korean markets leading the retreat, as a…
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China · Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Asian equity markets were mostly lower on Thursday, tracking Wall Street’s overnight decline as Brent crude held above 100 dollars a barrel,…
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Japan’s consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 1.7 percent in the year to August, in figures the Statistics Bureau published on 18 September, the same day the Bank of Japan voted 7 to 2 to raise its policy rate to around 1.25 percent. The all items index rose 1.9 percent and the measure excluding both…
The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by a quarter point, from 1.0 percent, to around 1.25 percent on 18 September, on a 7 to 2 majority vote of its Policy Board, and said underlying consumer price inflation has been approaching 2 percent. The new level is Japan’s highest since 1995, per CNBC. The…
The Bank of Japan raised and the yen fell anyway. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.38 percent higher at 65,018.95 on Friday after the Bank lifted its policy rate a quarter point to around 1.25 percent, its highest since 1995 on the network’s account, and the yen still weakened 1.24 percent to 157.90 to the dollar…
Asia split on Thursday over the first session after the Federal Reserve’s quarter point rise: Hong Kong’s Base Rate moved to 4.25 percent under the peg’s own formula and the Hang Seng led the board’s decliners at 0.44 percent lower, while Taiwan’s Taiex led the gainers at 0.96 percent higher and Tokyo’s broad Topix outran…
Japan ran a trade deficit of 1,105.6 billion yen in August, up from 294.1 billion yen a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance said on 16 September. Exports rose 19.3 percent to 10,048.4 billion yen and imports rose 28.0 percent to 11,154.0 billion yen. On our calculation the deficit is 3.8 times last August’s. The…
Every index on our Asia board except one rose on Wednesday, with Korea’s Kospi the day’s best at 1.37 percent higher and Singapore’s Straits Times the only decliner at 0.06 percent lower, as the region traded its last full session before the Federal Reserve’s decision with a quarter point rise almost fully priced: Fed funds…
Japan imported 30.9 percent less petroleum by volume from the Middle East in August than a year earlier and paid 3.7 percent more for it, the Ministry of Finance said on 16 September. Across all suppliers the pattern runs the other way on volume: petroleum volumes rose 3.6 percent while the petroleum bill rose 58.7…
Every index on our Asia board fell on Tuesday, with Singapore’s Straits Times the worst at 1.39 percent and Japan’s Nikkei 225 the most resilient at 0.01 percent lower, as United States Treasury yields at their highest since 2007 and oil firmly above 100 dollars a barrel pressed on the region a day after every…
Asia’s chip heavy markets fell on Monday after the leaders of rival artificial intelligence laboratories united behind a call to slow the technology’s development. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 3.26 percent to 6,684.37, the region’s steepest fall, with the chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics closing down more than 6 percent and 4 percent, per…
The Bank of Japan held 644.27 trillion yen of assets on 10 September, the last account it published before its policy meeting on 17 and 18 September. The figure was released on Monday. It is 10.9 percent below the 723.42 trillion yen held on the same date in 2025 and 15.7 percent below the 764.50…